On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:44:45AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Adrian Ho wrote:
>
> > Why use a program delivery when you can use .qmail forward directives?
> > "man dot-qmail" for details, and create the necessary .qmail files
> > (probably .qmail-youralias in the same directory you put your domain's
> > .qmail-default).
>
> Well, there's over 10,000 e-mail addresses that would have to be
> forwarded. Wouldn't I have to create a .qmail-<name> file for everyone in
> the MySQL database
Yes.
> (would there be a filesystem efficiency issue when I have 10,000 files
> in the directory?),
Certainly much less than running a perl+DB script on every incoming
message. If you're really worried about filesystem performance (almost no
one is), go with qmail-ldap instead (see www.qmail.org for the URL).
> and also keep these files synchronized with inserts, updates and
> deletes done to the MySQL database?
Unless you're in a habit of editing your DB directly, just add
the necessary (but trivial) instructions in your DB scripts to
update/create/delete .qmail-* accordingly.
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